I blame Twilight for hitting my lowest point in tech school back at Keesler AFB. This might take some explaining.

You see, the funny thing about today's Air Force is that when you go to basic training, it's a lot more combat-oriented than it used to be. A lot more. So when you get off the bus having graduated from BMT, it's like this:

So you have this exceedingly awkward paradigm shift from high-stress "here's what an IED looks like, it is probably going to kill you at some point in your career" to a long, boring inprocessing week and then you learn electronic principles, which is extremely dry, and even more boring. So you look for things to do with your newfound free time.

It was at this point that I found out that my classmates were reading really shitty books. Avidly. Books by Goodkind, Hamilton and Meyer. And the one they were all talking about, since the movie was about to come out, was Twilight.

"What, you mean the same Twilight with Edward the Mormon Sparkle Vampire?""Dude Edward is badass! He can blah blah blah de blah...""Oh God. Oh my God.""What?""We joined the military. We are supposed to be men. These are horrible books for junior high girls. And we are in the Air Force. We are supposed to be the smart branch.""Yeah, so?""So we're not supposed to be a bunch of pansy-ass manchildreARRRRRRRRRRGH."

I suppose that this could be a good thing if I get deployed. Even though it's unlikely I'll see combat, if I do, I'll have plent of HAET to take out on the enemy. That is, if I don't get taken out because my wingman is too busy daydreaming about how badass it would be to be like Edward or some shit.

VB wrote:

Somath Cegem wrote:

Why do I suddenly want to see a fic of Alucard tearing through the entirety of the Twilight cast. Just imagining it makes me so happy.

Like this? Not fic, but awesome nonetheless.

What I really like about this is that apparently Edward isn't even worth a silver exploding .454 hollowpoint from an extremely oversized custom 1911. No, Alucard views him with such distain that he takes him out with what appears to be a 9mm FMJ from an M9, the most generic round from the most generic pistol. Burn!

Spoiler:

Yeah, I doubt that was intentional, but I like to think of it that way.

It was at this point that I found out that my classmates were reading really shitty books. Avidly. Books by Goodkind, Hamilton and Meyer. And the one they were all talking about, since the movie was about to come out, was Twilight.

"What, you mean the same Twilight with Edward the Mormon Sparkle Vampire?""Dude Edward is badass! He can blah blah blah de blah...""Oh God. Oh my God.""What?""We joined the military. We are supposed to be men. These are horrible books for junior high girls. And we are in the Air Force. We are supposed to be the smart branch.""Yeah, so?""So we're not supposed to be a bunch of pansy-ass manchildreARRRRRRRRRRGH."

One of my guy friend is in the marines and reads Twilight. I laughed for a good 20 minutes when I found out. I mean this guy is a huge dude from the south with a deep booming voice and he reads Twilight.

Avari

Join date : 2009-06-28Location : France

Subject: Re: Twilight: The Death of Feminism Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:18 pm

Penguin wrote:

"What, you mean the same Twilight with Edward the Mormon Sparkle Vampire?""Dude Edward is badass! He can blah blah blah de blah...""Oh God. Oh my God."

:roflmao: I can just imagine your expression of utter disgust. Poor Penguin!

Quote :

"We joined the military. We are supposed to be men. These are horrible books for junior high girls.

And silly junior high girls, at that. I admit that when I was a teenager, I loved clothes, doing my nails 5 times a week, and angsting about boys on the phone with my friends (in fact, still do those things, except the angsting part), but I'm pretty sure I would have found Twilight rather boring.

I'm rather amazed men read Twilight too. If you want badass heroes, Edward is kind of blah.

BlooferladySporkbender

Join date : 2009-06-10Age : 27Location : In your closet

Subject: Re: Twilight: The Death of Feminism Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:42 pm

Penguin, that's really funny. I always have a hard time believing guys can find Edward badass.